Keystroke the Carriers

Posted on April 20th, 2007

The carriers raise your monthly bills, add senseless fees, and sell you ringtones for ludicrous amounts of money. It’s time to save some money and keystroke the carriers (Verizon, Cingular, T-Mobile, and Sprint). Voicemail burns up precious minutes each month by making you listen to your message and the digital lady. You can basically skip everything she says simply by using a simple keystroke shortcut. You can save messages, skip messages, check your allocated anytime minutes, and get credits for dropped calls just by dialing a few keys.

1) Skip Voicemail intro: press *

2) Check anytime minutes: dial #646 and Send

3) While listening to a message press: 1 to Rewind, 2 to Pause, 3 to Fast Forward, 4 to Slower, 5 to go Envelope Info (date/time), 6 to go Faster After listening, 4 to Replay, 7 to Delete, 9 to Save, 0 for Help.

4) Check Your Balance: dial #BAL and Send

5) Make A Payment: #PMT and Send

6) Check The Number of Text Messages and kilobyte usage: dial #DATA and Send

7) Contact Customer Service: dial *611 and Send

8) Verizon Minutes used Firefox Extension

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1) Skip Voicemail intro: press *

2) Check anytime minutes: dial *646#

3) Delete a voice mail message: press 77

4) Save a voice mail message: press 99

5) To turn off the lady talks when people enter your voicemail: Call your voicemail and at the main menu dial 4272.

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1) Skip Voicemail intro: press 1

2) Check anytime minutes: *4

3) Sprint Users can get credits for their dropped calls. Simply dial *2. Press 1. After the virtual representative prompts you say “credit for a dropped call” or “dropped call credit“. You can only redeem 20 dropped calls a month for a max credit of $10 (use this service only twice a day). 50 cents is added for each credited dropped call.

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